Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGrace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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